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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 16h

I suspect she got into office for the precise purpose of attending to the whims and comforts of homeowners from Kenwood, Isles and Cedar-Dean neighborhoods---and making sure the city remains hard-wired for their needs above anyone else's. It's her mission. She'll love it.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 1d

Make it over age 60.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 1d

💯plus Facebook + Strib + Hill and Press or whatever the Kenwood paper is called + Minneapolis Times + All of Minneapolis fear-mongering emails. People over here are in a local version of the Fox News bubble.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 1d

But Evan!! The other three candidates were all various hues of Blackity-Black!!!And at least two were more progressive than Frey. I suspect this was the unspoken (and perhaps subconscious) logic in a lot of Ward 13.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty sure AmyK was one of the behind-the-scenes organizer for Senate Democrats Caving Yet Again. She’s also savvy enough to keep her name off the vote tally.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 1d

I don't always agree with Dan Pfeiffer, but this is a thoughtful take.

Thoughts on Democrats' Shutdown Surrender

Democrats lost the battle, but they may win the war

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats Kill Hope (Again). Oliver Willis lays it out. This also describes Amy Klobuchar to a T.

Democrats Kill Hope (Again)

Chuck Schumer Reboots The Montreal Screwjob

www.oliverexplains.com

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 1d

#2: I'd bet good money that, behind the scenes, Amy Klobuchar was orchestrating & approving this cave-in. Like Chuck Schumer, she didn't vote for it, (They only needed 8 votes and had them.) but she was part of the group that had been planning this for a few weeks. Amy acts centrist; votes rightward

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 1d

Note to fellow Boomers in Minneapolis upset about the Senate Democrats caving yet again:

#1: This is precisely why The Youngs have embraced the DSA and why you should the same. Or at least quit demonizing young Dems who are looking for big change. The DSA caucus is the future.

# 2....

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 1d

Josh Marshall with a slightly more optimistic (?) or certainly long-term take on Team Cave’s Big Win. (He hates the Dem Cave.I find Josh to be grounded and sane, so that's why I read Talking Points Memo.)

A Quick Take on Team Cave’s Big Win

I have what I suspect is a somewhat counterintuitive take on the...

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 2d

Nobody in American politics hates their own voters more than the Democratic Party

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 2d

How long till we learn American, United & Delta worked the phones on Senate Dems?

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 2d

Love love love my senator from Minnesota, @smith.senate.gov .

Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 2d

I will not support this bill that completely fails to help Americans afford their health care.

Trump and R’s have more than doubled Americans’ health care premiums, and for 40 days they have refused to lift a finger to do a thing about it. In fact, they’ve made it worse by taking food from kids.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 2d

Attention: @klobuchar.senate.gov and @smith.senate.gov
Don't do the GOP's dirty work for them. GOP has the voted. Let them end the filibuster; call back Congress and let the GOP take 💯 of the credit for their policies.

I mean, sheesh, read the room. Don't make a deal.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 3d

Re: #3: city is actually really racist, it’s just expressed more covertly and with “niceness” which makes it even yuckier.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 3d

100 percent Swedish and Danish stock here. Can concur! My God, this sounds hellish. I can also feel the revulsion of the ancestors.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 3d

Almost everything Elizabeth Spiers says about Andrew Cuomo and his rich donors also applies to Jacob Frey (minus the sex scandals). I so wish these guys and their world view hadn't prevailed in Minneapolis.

Don't Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out, Andrew Cuomo

I wrote about the end of Cuomo-ism for The New York Times. Here's the column: Back on Aug. 8, at 5:40 p.m., the retirement-aged nepo baby and disgraced former governor of New York tweeted at the much...

www.elizabethspiers.com

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 4d

Narrator: Everything was in service to her personal ambitions, now and forever, world without end. Amen. The gospel according to Amy K.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 5d

Love, love, love this song. Always makes me get up and dance.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 5d

I also want to invite anyone who's interested in working to organize these voters---join us at Southwest Action for Equity, @https://bsky.app/profile/swaempls.bsky.social. And the under new progressive leadership Minneapolis Area DFL Senior Caucus is doing good work too.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 5d

I agree with Betsy's analysis of appealing to White voters in SW Minneapolis in order to win. But after eight years of Frey/All of Minneapolis fear-mongering, DSA-Red Baiting, older White people in Ward 13 act a lot like Fox News viewers---really primed for Rage and Fear bait.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 5d

This is why---after 35+ years of subscribing--I no longer subscribe or read the NYT. If I occasionally want to read something, I copy the link and read it at Removepaywall.com. It's funny--the NYT was a morning ritual and now I don't miss it at all.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 6d

White women.😡

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 6d

Narrator: The answer was both. Plus a dollop of anti-Blackness that got even more freaked out at Fateh being Extra Black, aided by all Frey's smears about cheating and fraud. None of it is pretty, is it?

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 6d

It is all about race and class. Middle-class and affluent White boomers--who always talk about how they voted for Obama and their uncle "marched with MLK" are the big issue. Frey promotes division on race, class and generation and they eat it up. (Speaking as affluent White Boomer here.)🤮

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